There has been a tension in Cultural Studies between those authors who see fun as important; and those who see it as a distraction. This tension has been played out around the concepts of amusement, distraction, pleasure, ...

The beginning of the twenty-first century has seen significant changes in the legal profession, from the increased use of e-communications and incorporated legal practices, to the internationalisation of lawyers and the ...

One of the most important problems in robot localisation is the detection of previously visited places (loops). When a robot closes a loop, the association between observed features and present ones can be used to update ...

A feature program about the real trade for virtual goods in online worlds and multiplayer games. The program explores the economic and ethical consequences of trading in virtual worlds. http://www.abc.net.au/rn/backgroun ...

In Australia a serious and widely documented statistical gap exists between the socio-economic circumstances of the countrys Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations. Areas of divergence include life expectancy, health, ...

The contemporary burgeoning usage of digital movies, photos, audio and text, their distribution through networks both electronic and physical will be considered in the context of a convergence of these media with a popular ...

Histogram-based lossless data embedding (LDE) has been recognized as an effective and efficient way for copyright protection of multimedia. Recently, a LDE method using the statistical quantity histogram has achieved good ...

Increased recognition of the global importance of salt marshes as `blue carbon? (C) sinks has led to concern that salt marshes could release large amounts of stored C into the atmosphere (as CO2) if they continue undergoing ...

Mass coral bleaching is linked to elevated sea surface temperatures, 1-2°C above average, during periods of intense light. These conditions induce the expulsion of zooxanthellae from the coral host in response to photosynthetic ...

Top quartile serum prolactin levels confer a twofold increase in the relative risk of developing breast cancer. Prolactin exerts this effect at an ill defined point in the carcinogenic process, via mechanisms involving ...

Dicer, an enzyme involved in microRNA (miRNA) maturation, is required for proper cell differentiation and embryogenesis in mammals. Recent evidence indicates that Dicer and miRNA may also regulate tumorigenesis. To better ...

The bufferless fluid flow model (BFFM) is often used in the literature for loss performance analysis. We propose an efficient and effective means of investigating cell loss using the BFFM. We define the cell loss rate ...